Animals Quotes
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
Captain Beefheart -
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
Walter Gilbert
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Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.
Eliphas Levi -
Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.
Farley Mowat -
I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.
Sigmund Freud -
I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.
Kaley Cuoco -
Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
Eartha Kitt -
I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the funniest things because you can't be in control. I like to lose control as a director.
David Gordon Green
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
Haile Selassie -
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
Malcolm de Chazal -
We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.
Elayne Boosler -
Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
W. G. Sebald -
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.
Antoine Lavoisier
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I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
Captain Beefheart -
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.
Laura Mennell -
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
Taylor Caldwell -
One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.
Faith Ford -
Animals were given freedom. Mankind took it away.
Anthony Douglas Williams -
I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.
Kaley Cuoco
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I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.
Tamsin Egerton -
It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.
Jack Gantos -
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George Bernard Shaw -
Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
W. C. Fields